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Have you ever needed to prioritize countries according to their risk of being exposed to humanitarian crisis or disaster, or understand why a crisis might happen? A partnership of international organisations and governments has launched the first global tool to help do just that. INFORM (Index for Risk...

Despite the lack of media interest in the CAR crisis, the fact remains that more than a million people have been forced from their homes and around half of the population is in urgent need of assistance as a result of violence over the past year. Among the most affected are children, who are increasingly...

Filipinos are resilient people well used to severe weather systems, but Typhoon Haiyan which came crashing through the Philippines on 8 November 2013 was different to anything else previously experienced. The super typhoon is believed to be the biggest ever to hit land and the city of Tacloban bore its...

Across Northern Iraq, intense rains have marked the arrival of winter. For hundreds of thousands of Iraqis displaced by violence and those who take refuge in the country, the impending winter compounds the stress, fear and hardship. Many of them are living in tents, unfinished buildings, sub-standard...

On 8 November 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan carved a trail of destruction across the Central Philippines. In the immediate aftermath, thousands of people did not have a place to stay and crops that so many depended on were completely submerged, rendering the seedlings useless.
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